Show HN: Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless JavaScript runtime

Post by kentonv » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 7:03 PM UTC

codetrotter wrote: post #11

kentonv wrote: post #10

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I think the comparison is just old, it used to be accurate. - Cloudflare Workers now supports WebSocket. - Cloudflare Workers now supports strongly-consistent storage / ACID transactions with Durable Objects. - Cloudflare Workers is becoming open source, but not there yet (I am refactoring the code for this as we speak): https://twitter.com/KentonVarda/status/1523666343412654081 (Disclosure: I'm the tech lead for Clo…

What language(s) is Cloudflare Workers written in?

Post by beebeepka » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 7:05 PM UTC

shekhar101 wrote: post #5

Sort of related - the website design is beautiful. So clean and to the point. I checked the source and it's Tailwind :) Very well executed and a great inspiration me to look into source code for my own designs.

Post by gabereiser » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 7:29 PM UTC

kasperl wrote: post #3

gabereiser wrote: post #2

This is really neat. I'm a little sad that it requires rewriting of your js app to make it work with it but still. I'm going to tinker with this for sure.

No V8? The website explicitly says that Blueboat combines Google's state-of-the-art V8 JavaScript engine, process-level snapshots, and Rust to speed up everything from cold start to runtime performance.

Post by kasperl » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 8:01 PM UTC

gabereiser wrote: post #16

kasperl wrote: post #3

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No V8? The website explicitly says that Blueboat combines Google's state-of-the-art V8 JavaScript engine, process-level snapshots, and Rust to speed up everything from cold start to runtime performance.

I didn’t see that until after. Sad, v8 is a massive library.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 8:46 PM UTC